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The Structure of Spoken Language: Intonation in Romance
Philippe Martin
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hardcover. An innovative and unified grammar of sentence intonation, applied to Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian). Num Pages: 340 pages, 206 b/w illus. 16 tables. BIC Classification: 2AD; CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Using an innovative approach, this book focuses on a widely debated area of phonetics and phonology: intonation, and specifically its relation to metrics, its interface with syntax, and whether it can be attributed more to phonetics or phonology, or equally to both. Drawing on data from six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian), whose rich intonation patterns have long been of interest to linguists, Philippe Martin challenges the assumptions of traditional phonological approaches, and re-evaluates the data in favour of a new usage-based model of intonation. He proposes a unified description of the sentence prosodic structure, focusing ... Read more
Using an innovative approach, this book focuses on a widely debated area of phonetics and phonology: intonation, and specifically its relation to metrics, its interface with syntax, and whether it can be attributed more to phonetics or phonology, or equally to both. Drawing on data from six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian), whose rich intonation patterns have long been of interest to linguists, Philippe Martin challenges the assumptions of traditional phonological approaches, and re-evaluates the data in favour of a new usage-based model of intonation. He proposes a unified description of the sentence prosodic structure, focusing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107036185
SKU
V9781107036185
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99-16
About Philippe Martin
Philippe Martin is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at Universite Paris Diderot.
Reviews for The Structure of Spoken Language: Intonation in Romance
'One of the leading scholars in the field of prosody presents his framework in this comprehensive book. The 'incremental storage concatenation model' challenges the 'autosegmental model' on the basis of large spoken corpora, looking at the Romance languages in particular, while also extending to English and Chinese Mandarin. An independent prosodic structure assembles the prosodic words into a hierarchy and ... Read more